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Great write up about the trail. Makes me want to go hiking. Hedgehog Hollow: where is it exactly?

Who is Henri?

So to improve your hair, you’re supposed to go around smelling like a side of beef along with poisonous Spanish Fly blistering your scalp? Did Thayer try any of these alleged grooming remedies himself? This particular preparation might have attracted some creatures, but not human ones.

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Henri Vallincourt from Greenville, class of 1968.

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My father told me that my grandfather worked at the 'match factory' before he bought his farm. That Finn asking about Anderson and the Diamond Match factory could have been him. I think Anderson was a Finn in spite of his name. There were Swedish Finns in NH at that time as well.

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